| *Aim*

The increasing number of computational models of biological systems demands a better support for search facilities. One possible improvement is to enable ranked retrieval of models based on existing model annotation. 
 
Applying existing Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to computational models, we have implemented a new search strategy in BioModels Database. In this search strategy the index of search terms contains not only the model descriptions in the database, but is expanded by including ontological and textual information about a model and its constituents retrieved from external sources. To add more background knowledge, we additionally index the abstracts of... |
